kayote reviewed Cracker Jack prizes by Alex Jaramillo
Review of 'Cracker Jack prizes' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A perfectly nice coffee table book. It has nice photos, engaging text you can jump in at pretty much any point, and a cover that has a spinner based on one of the toys. For someone who knew none of the history it was an interesting read. In a couple places the author referenced a prize that wasn't photographed--I wish he hadn't done that. Either don't mention it or show a photo. The photos are well done. It is arranged chronologically and with more history at the beginning and less details as the company stopped making as many major changes. There are not enough captions/details or completeness of prizes to satisfy a collector, but that is not its purpose or goal, so it is invalid to hold it against the book. Aas a lay person just interested in history, I enjoyed it and it was a fairly short read with …
A perfectly nice coffee table book. It has nice photos, engaging text you can jump in at pretty much any point, and a cover that has a spinner based on one of the toys. For someone who knew none of the history it was an interesting read. In a couple places the author referenced a prize that wasn't photographed--I wish he hadn't done that. Either don't mention it or show a photo. The photos are well done. It is arranged chronologically and with more history at the beginning and less details as the company stopped making as many major changes. There are not enough captions/details or completeness of prizes to satisfy a collector, but that is not its purpose or goal, so it is invalid to hold it against the book. Aas a lay person just interested in history, I enjoyed it and it was a fairly short read with pretty photographs.